Doctor Thorne: more thrilling than Downton Abbey?

Familiar themes feature in Julian Fellowes's adaptation of the Anthony Trollope classic

Doctor Thorne
Tom Hollander stars as Doctor Thorne while Stefanie Martini plays his niece, Mary
(Image credit: ITV)

Julian Fellowes insists that his new period drama about love and class divide, Doctor Thorne, is not the new Downton Abbey, but this hasn't stopped critics drawing comparisons.

His adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 1858 novel, which stars Tom Hollander as the eponymous hero, Stefanie Martini as his niece, Mary, and Ian McShane as the sinister Sir Roger Scatcherd, began last night on ITV.

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